Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2012 17:24:24 +0200 From: =?UTF-8?Q?Istvan_Gabor?= <suseuser04@lajt.hu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: proxy setup Message-ID: <2f649b2d.5934b132.5072f028.6dfd0@lajt.hu>
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Hello: My FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE system is behind a institutional firewall. Obviously I can not change any settings of this firewall. After installing FreeBSD and not setting any proxy servers I could install packages using pkg_add -r command. But when I tried to update the system freebsd-update fetch stopped. I traced that it stopped because getting the file through ftp failed: (with "failed: Connection refused: messages"). Therefore I have set http_proxy and ftp_proxy variables in my .profile file. After this the update ran without any problem. But now pkg_add -r refuses to fetch files with message: Error: Unable to get ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD....: Forbidden wget with --no-proxy option can fetch the file, that is the problem for pkg_add is probably the configured http or ftp proxy. How can fix this so that I should not every time set/unset proxy when I want to update the system or install a package? Thanks, Istvanhelp
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